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From: jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Another dumb question
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Date: 6 Mar 89 18:26:45 GMT
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In article <2383@puff.cs.wisc.edu> drew@cat46.CS.WISC.EDU (Shawn Drew) writes:

>   When I read individual strings from a big (around 300 entries) STR#, I
>   eventually run into garbage, although they look fine in ResEdit.  When
>   I recently upgraded to a 2 meg machine, the problem disappears.  
>BTW, I'm using LSP 2.0, System 6.0.2 on a 2 meg SE.

Try installing a growzone procedure.  It doesn't have to do anything
fancy; mine usually just do DebugStr("\pneed more memory").  This
caught me three bugs over the weekend.  If you've got lots of space to
play around in, your code might not be expecting to run out of room,
and this will also let you know in case you make bogus memory management
calls (NewPtr(34234344), or somesuch).  (I'm running LSC on a 1 meg
plus with the debugger active, so my programs don't even have room to
breathe.  One thing to keep in mind is that the debugger and gz procs
don't seem to get along very well.  I suspect this is due to lack of
memory for me though, as the debugger partition is 100k, lsc is 350k,
and my code gets about 160k.)

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